TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — With a diverse population of 23 million people, a $115 billion budget and a long list of complicated, unsolved problems like housing affordability and high property insurance costs, Florida may have outgrown its part-time citizen Legislature.

“It is structurally set up to fail,” said Bob Jarvis, a law professor at Nova...Read more

Federal Medicaid cuts could exact a heavy toll on psychiatric units at hospitals across the country, many of which are already struggling to keep their doors open but provide essential mental health care to people who need it.

Psychiatric units are costly and, like labor and delivery services, typically lose money for hospitals and tend to be ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In California's spendy cities, living comfortably costs more than almost anywhere else.

From the Bay Area to Orange County, living well requires incomes north of $150,000 in the pricier places, according to a recent study. A family with two kids needs more than $400,000 per year in some spots.

The study, conducted by financial ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — University of Pennsylvania scientist Robert Vonderheide sees cancer researchers making progress on two fronts: finding new treatments for the most challenging cancers, and studying ways to stop disease before it becomes cancer.

The newly elected president of the American Association for Cancer Research will lead the world’s ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. -- Smoke pours over the colony of bees, dousing the air in a sweet, earthy smell of burning wood.

Drake Elting holds the smoker while Stephanie Ramthun pulls out a wooden slat covered in buzzing honeybees.

The pair, dressed in thick white suits, look like astronauts exploring another planet.

In a way, they are.

They’re ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As of 7:50 p.m. Saturday, police, some on horseback, and a small group of demonstrators remained locked in a standoff outside the federal Metropolitan Detention Center.

Earlier officers had arrested dozens of protesters after authorities fired tear gas and pepper balls into the crowd, leaving at least one person with an eye ...Read more

A variant of COVID-19 called BA.3.2, which has circulated under the radar since late 2024, is now spreading quickly across the United States.

As a pulmonary and critical care doctor, I see many patients who are at high risk for severe COVID-19 due to chronic lung disease, as well as patients living with long COVID. All of them ask me ...Read more

There’s a well-worn debate in U.S. politics that goes something like this: Would you rather have abundant and affordable energy or a clean, healthy planet where wildlife can flourish?

It sounds like an either/or choice, but it doesn’t have to be.

Many corporate leaders, including those I’ve worked with, know that ...Read more

WASHINGTON — At a historic auditorium in Washington this week, Silicon Valley executives, Trump administration officials and members of Congress gathered in a sea of button-down shirts to extol the virtues of artificial intelligence.

Two days later, labor leaders joined a handful of U.S. lawmakers in a D.C. hotel ballroom to strategize how to...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Department issued a citywide tactical alert “due to incidents occurring on Alameda between Aliso and Temple” in the downtown area.

The Metropolitan Detention Center, a federal prison, is located at that intersection.

Authorities declared the tactical alert at 5 p.m., said LAPD Officer Jeff Lee.

“...Read more

Latin American governments from Panama to Chile that politically aligned themselves with Donald Trump are now absorbing a hit from the global oil-price surge triggered by their U.S. ally’s war on Iran.

So far, many regional leaders are asking their people to grin and bear price increases rather than return to fuel subsidies that were once ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered at the Minnesota state Capitol in St. Paul on Saturday for a rally serving as the “national flagship” for a third round of nationwide protests against what participants call the authoritarian aims of President Donald Trump.

The “No Kings” rally headlined by singer Bruce ...Read more

NEW YORK — Tens of thousands of protesters railing against ICE, the war in Iran and President Donald Trump’s “ongoing consolidation of executive power” took to Manhattan’s streets Saturday with one unified cry: “No Kings.”

Toting banners reading “We Will Not Be Silenced,” “Dump Trump” and “No War, No Kings,” and ...Read more

MIAMI —Yes, they chanted and sang. But for the protesters who packed Tropical Park on Saturday for a “No Kings” rally, their signs carried the main message.

“No Kings. No Felons,” read one. “Dump Don,” read another.

Others signs were just as blunt when it came to President Donald Trump or ICE, and spiced with an F-word or two.

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PHILADELPHIA — With continued uncertainty about federal research funding, the University of Pennsylvania’s engineering school on Friday launched a $200 million fund to finance innovative projects at their earliest stages.

The initial fund will support research and educational advances at the School of Engineering and Applied Science over ...Read more

DENVER — Carol Swan went to her first-ever protest in Denver’s Civic Center on Saturday dressed like Lady Liberty — a tiara of crystals and wire, a teal bedsheet-turned-dress that belonged to her late grandmother and a torch fashioned from aluminum foil.

The 74-year-old Lochbuie resident doesn’t like crowds. She normally protests alone ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A rolling wave of “No Kings” protests swelled through America’s small towns and big cities Saturday, with crowds gathering to blast President Donald Trump, Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdowns, the war in Iran and high gas and food prices.

Saturday’s demonstrations were expected to draw millions of people ...Read more

Joseph Duggar in a jailhouse phone call with his wife revealed he has spent most of his time in solitary confinement following his arrest for allegedly molesting a 9-year-old girl in Florida more than five years ago.

“I’ve been spending a lot of time reading the Bible, they got me a Bible in here,” Duggar told his wife, Kendra Duggar, per...Read more

Amir and Khaled Shanaran went out to their fields in the southern Hebron Hills at around 3:30 pm on a recent Saturday.

An Israeli settler was grazing sheep on their land, and they asked him to leave. Within minutes, two more settlers arrived on tractors. One of them pulled out a gun and shot Amir in the neck, killing him instantly. Khaled was ...Read more

NEW YORK — The admission by President Donald Trump’s Justice Department this week that Immigration and Customs Enforcement provided false information to justify mass arrests at immigration courts has sparked fury among attorneys and advocates, and demands that those detained in the crackdown be freed.

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan told a...Read more